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Quantity of the Blood is augmented, Bleeding and other 

 Evacuations are necellary ; but if the Quantity thereof be 

 diminiflied, then Reftoratives, Reft, and nourifliing Food 

 may be required : And if this laft proceeds from any Error 

 in the Stomach, caufing Lofs of Appetite, in fuch a Cafe, 

 thofe Things are to be adminiftred which create Hunger, 

 and help Digeftion. If the Texture of the Blood be chan- 

 ged, as is Uiual in a continual Courfe of Sicknefs, then it 

 may be neceflary, befides other Intentions, to adminifler 

 iuch Things as may corredl the vitiated Mais. 



Fourthly^ When a Difeafe proceeds from an Increafe or 

 Diminution of fome Secretion, the Cure ought, for the 

 jnoft Part, to be performed by fuch Things as enlarge the 

 Secretions that are too fparing, and reftrain fuch as are too 

 liberal : And the fafeft Way to reftrain an augmented Se- 

 cretion, is by the Increafe of fome other Secretion. And 

 indeed this Method of Revulfion has been fafely praftifed 

 among all Phyficians ; and if it could be rightly underftood 

 by Farriers, it would be of the greateft Importance in 

 their Pradtice. 



But here it is to be remark'd, that when we fpeak of arx 

 augmented Secretion, we underftand that as a Difeafe, and 

 not as a Remedy : For fometimes a Secretion augmented 

 becomes a Cure ; and in fuch a Cafe, it is not to be ftopped 

 immediately, but rather fomevvhat afiifted, when any 

 v/ays imperfedl. As for Inftance, If a Horfe be lax, and 

 has a Scouring upon him ; when this proceeds from a Dif- 

 order of the Guts only, by a Putrefaction of the Excre- 

 ments too long detained, it may be very proper to admi- 

 nifter fome moderate Purge, provided it be of fuch t 

 Namre as will not too much relax the Inteftinal Glands. 

 But if this Caufe proceeds from an obftruded Tranfpira- 

 tion, as is very ufual, then fuch Things as promote Sweat, 

 and a Breathing through the Pores, muft be likewife admi- 

 nifter'd. The like Method is to be obferved in moft other 

 Secretions, as in Sweat, Urine, running at the A/Touth and 

 Nofe, which may be often obfgrved among Horfes in the 

 Decline of Sicknefs. 



Fifthly, In the Cure of ail Difeafes, Na- Nature to he 

 ture 'is the beft Guide, and therefore the Far- carefully obfer- 

 rier muft diligently follow her. Whenever fhe '"'^"• 

 finds herfelf opprelled, fhe endeavours to throw off the 

 Load, and tries all the neareft and propereft Ways for her 

 Eelief J and it is for the Confervation cf Health, or re- 

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